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True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:40 PM Original message |
Siemens CEO... "US Workers Lack Skills" |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well yeah, destroy public education and make college unaffordable and that shit happens |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Don't confuse education with training. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:47 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Yes, but without 'education', training is like teaching a dog to use a woodchipper... |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
2. Hmm.. I wonder if they need engineers? |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. "better education and training could help reduce the persistently high US unemployment rate" |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
5. The skill set Americans lack is working for $10 hour and stacking people in a small apt. |
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somone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
6. And they're fat and lazy as well? |
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Larkspur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
7. I have a college education and so so many of my fellow colleagues who were laid off in 2008 |
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Scout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
9. i am an old fuddy duddy, i admit.... |
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daggahead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
10. Is it a "skill" to ... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 03:41 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. Bingo. |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
11. Manufacturing training would include: Bills-of-materials, quality systems, lean, tolerances, ... |
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bahrbearian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
12. Dosen't Siemens stand to make a Boat load of money from |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
13. I just signed up and registered |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
14. Companies must have forgotten that it used to be common practice to |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 03:11 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Yup. |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 04:24 PM Response to Reply #14 |
26. +1. nt |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
15. "including apprenticeship programmes of the kind it uses in Germany" |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 04:05 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. That sentence really pops out, doesn't it? |
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MakingANoise (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
16. Don't tell the GOP |
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Evasporque (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
18. Siemens CEO has huge salary.... |
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Habibi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
20. "having to invest in education and training to meet its staffing needs" |
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theaocp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 03:59 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. No shit. |
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Nailzberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
23. That's funny. I was overqualified for my position at Siemens and hired through a temp agency. |
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yella_dawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
24. US workers -do- lack skills. |
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Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
25. Yes, He Means The Skills To Work Like A Dog on a Pauper's Wage |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-20-11 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
27. You know what |
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